Michael Irvin goes crazy Bengals defeat Dolphins 27-15, Tua Tagovailoa suffers head/neck injury

Of the season, but we have a 27 to 15 score as the final in Cincinnati tonight. I am Colleen Wolf with Steve Smith senior Michael Robinson. This is game day final Mercedes-Benz postgame show. We have a lot to get to. We'll get into the game in full but the big story tonight after watching this game was to a tongue of Iloa and his injury now per the broadcast to is expected to be discharged from the hospital tonight. He's expected to travel with the team back to Miami. So just have that in mind right now, but this is what happened. He was injured in the second quarter. He was down for a long time. He was carted off the field taken to the University of Cincinnati Hospital for head and neck injuries. He was conscious when he left and had movement in all his extremities according to the Dolphins. But this comes after just four days ago. He was injured against the bills and taken out of that game after a hit from Matt Milano. He was evaluated and tested for a concussion in that game. He cleared concussion protocol. He returned to the game with what was deemed back and ankle injuries and because he cleared he was not in concussion protocol all this week. He was actually questionable coming into this game with a back injury. The NFL PA requested an investigation into the Dolphins concussion protocol and the league and the players Association initiated a joint investigation that was ongoing this week. He was cleared to play tonight and here we are. So it was a scary scene. It was scary for us. I'm sure it was absolutely awful for his family, his friends, his teammates, his coaches to watch that. It's scary to watch anyone be carted off the field in any situation, but your initial thoughts on this after watching it. Well, it was a very scary situation and I hope our viewers and all of the consumers of NFL football understand that this is still a violent sport and injuries happen and I've been on the turf like that before. I was playing quarterback for Penn State in 2004 took a hit and I was laid out right there. I couldn't feel my arms couldn't feel my legs. My body woke up an hour later in the cat scan and you feel hopeless when you're right there on the ground and to see his teammates to see how much to admit to the team to see one of their brothers down on the ground like that. I mean, it's just a just a scary sight and you know, you wish to a well, you wish his family. Well, I just want to make sure that the kid is healthy before he comes back on the football field because you just don't want to play around with any type of head injuries or neck injuries or anything like that. We just don't know the nature of it. It just the optic Steve just didn't look like no, the optics did not look right and sometimes with injuries and the short the short season this week, right the short week short week. It makes things sometimes seen better or worse than what they are and at the end of the day, this is a violent sport, but not every play ends in violence. Not every play ends with a significant injury and it is unfortunate to see such a promising young man be carted off the field and you can you can look at social media and you can see all of the people giving their opinions and at the end of the day doesn't matter what your opinion is. All we hope is to is healthy that the training staff is not looking at the games that he will miss or be involved in that he's that they are just looking at will to be all right in this moment to be to a tongue of our Lord not to football. Yeah, look out for tour. Yes, the young man and sometimes, you know as athletes we want to get back in the game. We want to come back and it's it's the it's the other people in the organization to train the staff the coaches and things like that that sometimes protect us from ourselves. I've had trainers, you know out in Seattle out in San Francisco who would hide my helmet who would do things because they already know I wanted to get back out there to hope you're all right, man. Get well soon. Yeah, there was an outpouring of concern on social media. We saw that's an outpouring of concern just among us, but it is encouraging the news that Mike Garofalo tweeted here that to a will be released from the hospital will travel home with the Dolphins and that's what the team told Kaylee Hartung on the broadcast. It's very good news, obviously, and we will bring you any updates that we get as they come Mike McDaniel when we when he gets to the podium, we will bring that to you as soon as possible. All right, we still have more to come on game day final presented by Mercedes-Benz big night tonight for the Bengals 2715 over the Dolphins will go through this full game coming up. I Tony Gonzalez Ryan Fitzpatrick and Richard Sherman to a tongue of a bullet by law left on a stretcher Kelly Hartung reporting that he did in fact have sustained head and neck injuries. He was taken to the University of Cincinnati Hospital. Great news the Miami Dolphins telling us and confirming that he has all movement of his extremities. So Tony given everything that we saw last week and now this week a really tough sight to see absolutely and we're learning that in real time. By the way, I'm so happy to hear that. He's able to move his arms and his legs because I mean you got even stuff like that happens the family. Mom was watching dad's watching life. It just takes the air out of the stadium and I give a lot of credit to the Cincinnati Bengal crowd. Yeah chant to it to it to a get up but it's just it's a part of the game. It's it's unfortunate. I've never seen anything like that the way the way the hands went but at the same time prayers are going up and and best wishes for his health and his family as well. Yeah, and that you know, we've all played a lot of football. That's one of the toughest scenes. I think I've ever seen you know for him as a brother getting to spend a few hours with him last night as happy as I've ever seen him to see him do that get knocked out go limp whatever it was and you could just feel it not just with the fans but both teams. That was a scary scene and you know as a as a player, you've got to move on. You got to play the game as an announcer analyst. I'm having a tough time right now. It makes you emotional. It makes you emotional and we played the game for a long time and you know how hard it is on your family and your friends on all the people watching your parents sitting there at the game cheering their son on wishing him to do great and you see that it's just devastation and I think it just brings us back to a sense of the present of reality of the reality of the violence of this game and I and I hope it gives people perspective, you know, these players are out here giving their all you know, whether they're playing good whether they're playing bad you're cheering for your team and cheering against them. These are human beings and they have families and they have futures and they have and they're putting it all out on the line to entertain people and it's just you hate to see those things. I'm really excited and happy to hear that. He's moving all his extremities. I've been on the field three times where players got career-ending injuries and it just changes the whole dynamic of the game. It changes it sticks in your mind like like it sticks in every player's mind and every player plays with a different sense. You know, you don't you don't have those crazy collisions that you used to having in a ballgame people play kind of kind of kind of take a take a bit off well and credit to Teddy Bridgewater to with all the emotion out there for him to come lead a touchdown drive. I mean, you know, Teddy's with him every single day in that room and I know his heart was feeling for him. But as professionals, unfortunately, the show must go on they go out there and Teddy does a great job for this football team. How do you do that go into the locker room and then know that you still have a second half of football? Yeah. Well, I'll tell you what what's going on in that Miami locker room right now. I'm sure the first thing coach is probably talking to the players about it. They want to get information. They want to know about their brother. How is he doing? Is he going to be okay? And then you got to wrap your head around. We got to go back out there and play another half. And honestly, it's it's not like a win one for the get. But let's go out there and let's win this game. And let's let's do it. It's energy. You come back with that kind of it's a different kind of energy. I would expect him to come out with, you know, especially knowing that he's moving at all extremities. He is your brother. And that's the part of the connection that that is built over this game. They're going to come out with a sense of urgency. You saw the way Teddy played, you know, coming back from a half. These guys are are hungry. They're raring to go. It's a it's a sigh of relief in some respects to know that it isn't, at least for now, as serious as we assumed it would be, but it can really motivate it. And it tests the strength of this football team. It's going to test the leadership. All those guys with the C patches on their chest, they're going to have to get everybody to move forward and focus on getting a win in this game. And that's the responsibility of having that C on the chest. And Miami's got some good ones. And of course, all that matters is the Dolphins reporting that he has movement of all of his extremities, which is great news. Tungabailoa is still down as they work on him. And we'll show you in a moment the way his fingers were stretching out at the end of that play. Comes down on his elbow, comes down on his back, comes down on the back of his head with serious force. He goes down. And right as he goes down, you can see both his hands, you just get right away, you get confused.